This morning I headed out in my Merlin frigate Death Threat III and
started heading back to the old headquarters where I was going to
switch to a shuttle. Along the way I went one jump out of my way to pick
up a shield recharger I purchased and then went back on the trail.
Unfortunately, the insta bookmark to the next gate was setup to come
from the first gate and not the second one I was at from my sidetrip.
Sure enough, I warped in 18 klicks out from the gate and a gate camper
was there locking on to me. Having never been in PvP I felt foolhardy
and decided to try and make a run for the gate. I'm fast, right? And
small? He shouldn't be able to hit me, right?

Wrong. Only
3000 meters from the gate I was dead and soon after mercifully podded to
save my clone the embarassment of warping back to base without a ship.
Sigh.

So come people, whip 'em out!

P.S. man, remember insta-bookmarks you needed for getting around anywhere in good time? Can I get a hell yes for warp to zero?

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That is my first loss. It hurts to even look at the fit I was sporting on that thing. The really horrible part, besides also getting podded, was that I went right back out again in another Cormmie to get revenge.

http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=4797051

The funny thing is, I actually did some damage to one of the ships on the second loss which resulted in my very first killmail.

http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=4797049

I guess the rats got him or something. Oh well, that was all a long time ago.

A little over a month after I started playing (hell yeah I lasted that long)

I thought I was badass in my barely fit Maelstrom.. I went straight for battleship because I thought they were cream of the crop.. Because I went straight to BS it pretty much meant I couldnt fit a damn thing on it...

I was heading for some random system in lowsec to do a salvage mission. I knew there were dangers in lowsec, but it didn't matter, my Caracal was awesome and FAST. And how about that awesome shield booster and the AMPLIFIER, That's still how I fit my Caracal's.

This happened after a year long hiatus from an Eve Online trial. I had just gotten T2 small blasters and had added them to my mission running Incursus at the time. I wanted to earn some quick isk. I had heard that belt rats have higher and higher bounties the lower the sec status was/is. So I hopped into the nearest low-sec system, found a domi belt rat that was worth 500K isk (the highest bounty I'd ever seen at that point), and started working.

I had just gotten killed when that Moa showed up in the belt. Totally forgot about "people can shoot you in low-sec" factor. Caught me by surprise when that Moa locked, neuted, and proceeded to punch holes in my pretty little Incursus. At least I was able to get my pod out.

I did learn a few lessons:1) People can shoot you in low-sec2) Neuts suck3) Cruisers are very effective against frigs4) Belt ratting in low-sec sucks.

Funny, as I was thinking of what my first loss was, I thought of my missioning vexor that got scanned down by a bit, nasty hurricane, running level 2 blockade in the low-sec system next door to my corp's headquarters.

http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=11172774

But looking at my battleclinic board, I had actually lost 5 other ships before that. The first four of them due to a random war dec by a single jaguar pilot on our corp of new players.

http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=11126516

Along with 4 or 5 other corp members who were online at the time, I put together a few throwaway ships to go out and put up a good fight. We were all pretty surprised when his lone jaguar took out all our ships he got a point on, including a few cruiser.

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